Author's note
So here's chapter two(this has got to be the fifth time I've tried to do this-my computer is stupid) I got this chapter up fast for anyone who cares. The next chapters won't come up as fast, because school starts next week, but I hope to have ch. 3 up before then. So belated warning, this is a post series fanfic and there will be spoiler for the end of TRC. Thank you to anyone who reads this! Please rate and review! Disclaimer-I don't own these guys, never will. And if anyone can tell me how toget the liney thing at the end of the note. I did it last time but idk how to!
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Chapter two
She dreamt that she was a butterfly. She flew over a turquoise blue ocean, with a hot, tropical sun shining down on the water creating undulating sections of blinding light on the water. Then she was over a meadow of deep emerald green with splashes of magenta, lemon yellow, orange, and perry winkle blue. Then she flew into a temple.
It was a giant, traditional Buddhist temple. The corridors twisted and turned almost like a maze. The butterfly went faster and faster, zipping through corridors, up stair cases. An odd sense of panic begins to fill the insect's brain; it's going much faster than any butterfly should go, the walls of the rooms and hallways blurring into a haze. It keps turning and turning and then: a dead end straight ahead, the insect doesn't have time to react, no time to stop before...
"Wake up" Aria startles awake, she turns to see the person waking her. She's laying on her couch and sitting in a chair next to her was a man. Tall and lithe with long wavy blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail. His eyes were painfully blue, as bright as the sea in her dream. She gasps. 'No no no no! This can't be real! It can't be! Is it him? Her eyes widening in shock.'
"Clam down, okay," says the blonde in a soothing voice, "My name is Fai D. Flourite, I seam to have given you quite a shock. Are you alright?" He's Fai, oh my god he's Fai! The room begins to swim again, threatening to give into blackness again.
"I can't..." she says, unwilling to go I conscience again.
"Wait, try some water." a young brunette holds out a glass of water, his amber eyes full of concern. "I'm Syaoran." the teen says, "What's your name" Aria takes the water, holding it gingerly as if it might hurt her.
"A-Aria." she says looking at her reflection in the glass as to avoid looking at the three people in the room. Three! She suddenly remembers. She quickly scans the room, and sure enough, leaning against a wall was, "Kurogane" she breaths. The ninja looks up.
"How the hell do you know my name?" he asks. Aria turns to Fai confused, then realizing her mistake, she says, "I-I dunno. I just knew" she said, her brow furrowing, she could tell this was going to be a problem.
"Wait, so your not like cosplayers trying to screw with me, right?" Aria asks.
"Tch, not damned cosplayers again." Kurogane mumbles.
"Nope," Fai says, "we're the real deal, no hoaxes, no tricks" Then something white and fluffy flys into her face and Mokona squeals,"See! See!? I'm Mokona Modoki in the flesh! You think someone could fake this!?" the obnoxious fluff ball begins to jump all over Aria until he was grabbed by Syaoran.
"Hey, don't scare her any more than she is." he said smiling. Aria smiled back nervously. 'How can this be!? That's Mokona all right, but-no I must be hallucinating, this has to be a dream, a dream, yea it's the heat. It's the heat. But even if it's not... I don't think I should let them know that I know them, or at least I think I know them. She thought. Can I really believe this? I am meeting them! Is it Hitsuzen? If they exist then Hitsuzen, fate, destiny, it exists.' She is brought from her thoughts by the sound of her cat purring loudly. Looking up, Aria sees Fai petting her cat, smiling what she took to be a real smile.
"She's a lovely cat. Does she have a name?" Fai asks.
"Oh, yea, her name is Millie." Aria responds.
"Come on its just a stupid cat!" Kurogane scoffed loudly from his corner, " I just dunno how you can love the animal so damn much." he says, Syaoran putting up soft protest that it's just a cat, but then Millie turns her head sharply and begins to growl at Kurogane as if she could understand him.
"What the hell are you looking at cat?!" Kurogane yells, beginning more forward, growling back at the cat.
"Oh calm down Millie, Kuro-poo's just a big meanie, don't pay attention to him." The mage begins to pet the cat cat again, who, after a brief bristling begins to purr again.
"My. Name. Is. Kurogane!" yells Kuro-poo, "No matter how many times I tell you, you won't fucking stop!" the ninja is now right in Fai's face yelling at the top of his lungs.
"One think they'd start keeping track" Aria whispers to herself. Syaoran turns to Aria a bit, it sounded almost as if she new that this happened a lot. He shook his head, it would probably be obvious to anyone.
Aria started laughing at the pair.
"You two are funny." she said laughing. Fai gave her a small smile where as Kurogane just scowled.
"Umm...maybe we should get to know each other a bit. We will be staying in this world for a while, we might as well get along" Syaoran suggests. Giving hopeful looks around the room.
"Okay!" Fai says clapping in enthusiasm that didn't seam to quite reach his eyes. 'Its so weird, I know all his secrets', Aria thought.
"Well...where to start?", the energetic blonde begins, "Well, as you saw, back in the garden, we came here through magic, wait, is there any magic in this world?"
"Nope, at least none that I know of." Aria responds.
"Oh, okay, well I'll get to that later. First off we should introduce ourselves. As I've already said my name is Fai, I do have some magical power of my own, but nothing too substantial. I enjoy being with others and...there's not really anything interesting about me to tell you." he smiled, "I just like enjoying life to the fullest!" lies. Kurogane stiffened a little during Fai's self description.
The ninja was the next to speak. "My name is Kurogane, no matter what the mage says. I serve Princess Tomoyo, you don't piss me off and I am a professional ninja so, again, don't get on my bad side, I have a temper. But," he stops looking so mad, "If you don't piss me off, I don't think we'll have any problems. I even have occasions where I can be almost...nice" he says with the slightest of smiles.
"Hyuu! Kuro-sama being nice for a change!" Fai says, then turns to Aria and whispers, "Don't tell him but I think he likes you!" Fai smiles with an evil glint in his eyes, easily avoiding Kurogane's lunge at him.
"And lastly, there's myself." Syaoran says. "My name is Syaoran. I am studying to be a professional archaeologist and... I have someone waiting for me to get back to my home, so we won't be staying long. Uhh.." Syaoran looks around awkwardly trying to think of something else to say, "Oh! I also like martial arts, and I'm learning sword fighting from Kurogane-san.
"Tch, kid you don't really need lessons anymore." the ninja scoffs causing Syaoran to blush a little.
"But there's still so much more I have to perfect!" he says.
"Well Aria, what about you?" Aria looks up at Fai, taking a moment to digest the question, she had been busy examining them all. It was unbelievable how much they resembled their manga selves. Syaoran had messy dark brown hair and amber eyes. His build lean and strong from martial arts. Fai-she blushes at thinking this-was even prettier as a real person then an animated one. His eyes large and brilliant blue, his long hair tied back with a single black ribbon, but most of it still fell into his eyes. And his hair was a beautiful shade of blonde, very light, but with streaks of darker blondes, some almost reddish. Kurogane was tall, but that was about all she could tell, he was still in full ninja gear. Though she could see his piercing red eyes peeking out from all that black.
"Oh! Well I'm 16 years old and going into my junior year of high school. I have no idea what I want to study in college, but I'm really into art...and dance, and I love to write, and i like to read...manga. I..like the color green, and I get really hyper. And I talk too much." Aria finishes off her babble.
"Do you have a boyfriend?" Fai asks.
"Ah! What?! No!" Aria splutters and before she can ask the question, Kurogane asks, "Why the hell do you care idiot?" glaring at Fai
"I'm just curious" Fai whines, "Is Kuro-pipi worried I'll cheat on you with the cute new girl?" he squeezes Aria's shoulders sticking he toungue out at a very angry Kurogane who was muttering about if he ever gets his hands on FaiHete Mage would be dead meat.
"Hey, guys," Aria says tentatively, "Would you mind telling me why you are traveling through the dimensions?" she sees Fai and Kurogane tense up at this question, while Syoaran just looked sad and to her surprise he answered.
"Well, it's a long story, so I'll just go over the main points." Syaoran begins to tell the tale, starting with Princess Sakura losing her memories and then progressing surprisingly similarly to how she knew it, until Celes. When they got to the part in the story where Fai's past would have been reveled Syaoran turned to Fai who gave a very small shake of the head, he didn't want his secrets told to a complete stranger. And Syaoran proceeded to say that they had been in a great battle and that instead of a world, merely a building was collapsing on them. Through the lie of Celes, Kurogane was very tense, looking like he need to hit something. Syaoran ended with how he had to now pay for his existence and was therefore stuck traveling the dimensions. He finished his story, sadly not having cleared up any of the super confusing parts of the story.
"And that's it." Syaoran smiled
"You left out the part when Fa-"
"Not now Kuro-chan." Fai says softy, not looking at the raven. The atmosphere in the room instantly changed, the tension making Mokona whimper, then she regained her hyperness springing out of Syaoran's arms an landing on Fai's head in front of Aria.
"You forgot all about me! I help you travel around the worlds and I am always very popular!" She squeaks
"How long have you been traveling without the princess?" Aria asks.
"Two years and five months, and seven days." Syaoran replies immediately.
"You know it to the day, kid?" Kurogane inquires.
"To the day" The brunette nods, a determined glint in his eye. His determination is impressive, his love for Sakura so true, so absolute, it's admirable. He is so completely dedicated, Aria is a bit jealous. It had been odd; she had always been a little envious of the tsubasa characters for having so much strength mentally, unlike herself always being scared and and just so normal.
"Nee, so Aria, could we stay here while we're here?" Fai asks, his companions giving him a bit of a glare for asking that right out of the blue. The blonde had a knack for being impertinent, yet still passing for socially acceptable.
"Well, I'm the only one home for the next eleven days, so I have rooms where you can sleep. Syaoran could sleep in my brother's room, and Fai and Kurogane could sleep in the master bed room or the guest room, I'll let you decide who gets which room. Here, I'll give you a tour of the house." Aria shows her guests around awkwardly, still not willing to believe that this was happening, that these three people were real. As she walked through the house she couldn't help noticing that some of the beautiful anime physique carried over to the real world. They were all unusually tall, Kurogane being the tallest at considerably over six feet. In addition to their height, they all had perfect skin, which she noticed with a sizable spark of envy.
Last up on the tour was the front yard. She knew they looked odd, being in they're original clothes, so it would just be a look. The front hard was Aria's garden for the most part and, she was rather proud of it. She opens the door
"MEKKYO!" Mokona yells. Her eyes wide open. Everyone stares, eyes widening. Aria's heart begins to beat faster, adrenaline slowly making its way into her system. Doesn't that mean that one of Sakura's feathers is near...Syaoran pales, there's no way this could be happening, another one of the princesses feathers, how could this be. It was never specifically said they had found them all right?
"What are you playing at pork bun?", Kurogane asks, he tone low and dangerous.
"I'm not playing anything! One's here! One of Sakura-chan's feathers is here!"
End note
So the butterfly dream was a bit if a reference to when in xxxholic Doumeki's grandfather(or someone) talks about someone having a dream that he was a butterfly and then wondering if he was just a butterfly dreaming he was a man. Hope you enjoyed! Sorry of editing was crappy, I was watching Ironman and my computer decided to be stupid.